There is a force that runs through women. The world has never known what to do with it.

Call it the erotic - the current of aliveness itself, the generative power that makes things live. Every woman carries it, and most of us learned, somewhere along the way, to bargain it down into something smaller and easier for the world to hold.

This book is for the woman who is done doing that.

The Women's Steps to Unleashing Power borrows the architecture of twelve-step recovery and turns it toward liberation. It begins from the opposite admission, the one a woman is rarely allowed to make: that she is inestimably powerful, and that the long work of containing that power has cost her more than she has let herself count.

What follows is a practice. Twelve steps, each ending in questions that take you beneath thought and into your own body, where the authority has been waiting all along. And when you are ready, a way to gather with other women and work the steps together - in a living room, at a kitchen table, on a video call that crosses continents.

It is here. It is in you. These pages are where you stop containing it.

The practice at the heart of the Women Are Power movement.